handicraftsman

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There I go every Saturday night, when the museum is open later than usual, to see the handicraftsman, the wood-worker, the glass-blower and the worker in metals. 

From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert

A handicraftsman 0 0 8 A common labourer, from 3d. to 5d.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

In course of time the handicraftsman followed the peddler, the German shoemaker, the tinsmith, and the saddler established themselves; the tents changed into strongly-built houses that stood around the market-place.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

A handicraftsman thinks an apprenticeship necessary to make him acquainted with his business.

From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson

As a student of art, he mourned over the reduction of the handicraftsman to a slave of the machine.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)